dp's blog » music http://blog.dp.cx Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:03:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Where’ve all the media players gone? http://blog.dp.cx/59/whereve-all-the-media-players-gone#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whereve-all-the-media-players-gone http://blog.dp.cx/59/whereve-all-the-media-players-gone#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:43:25 +0000 dp http://blog.dp.cx/?p=59 I want a new media player. I want it to:

  • play MP3s, OGGs, FLACs, etc (glaring at iTunes)
  • download podcasts
  • not be ugly as sin (glaring at Amarok2)
  • be graphical (I’m a commandline junky, but not when it comes to playing music) (glaring at cmus)
  • be fast, and not randomly lock up (glaring at Amarok1.4)
  • run on *nix (glaring at iTunes, MediaMonkey, and others)
  • support smart playlists

MediaMonkey is actually really good as a media player, but it doesn’t run on Linux.  I really don’t care if it has built in ripping capabilities; I have 30 other ways to do that.  It would be nice if it had scriptability; ala DCOP or others.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for a media player on *nix?

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